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The highest class in the Spanish colonies was the?
Peninsulares
What was the highest class in the spanish colonies?
Peninsulares
What were the people called who were born is Spain but lived in the Spanish American colonies?
The people who were born in Spain but lived in the Spanish American colonies were called peninsulares. They were considered the highest social class in the colonies and held positions of power and authority.
What factors determined social class in the spanish colonies?
Peninsulares were people originally born in the actual country of Spain but then they came to the colonies to settle. They had the highest positions to work. They usually obtained jobs as government and church officials. Creoles were the second highest class, the were considered the middle class. These people, unlike peninsulares were born not in Spain, but in the spanish colonies. They also had high jobs but never as high as penninsulares. They usually served as merchants, businessmen and sometimes farmers. Mestizos were the second to last class. They were born as a mix of Indian and Spanish parents. These were mostly in jobs of peasantry and farming. Last, Mulattoes were the lowest of the low. These people had a mix of wither spanish and African parents or Indian and African parents. As you can see, the African blood was vry undesirable to the Spaniards.
Who is the member of the highest social class in Mexico after the spanish conquest?
The peninsulares, or people born in Spain.
What are coriollos?
They were the spanish people born in the new world. They were the second highest class in the encomienda system. -Sheryl S.
Class structure in spanish colonies?
PeninsularesCreolesMestizosSlaves ( Indians & Africans )
What do you call a person who is the top of the social class and was sent by Spain to rule the Spanish colonies?
You call a person who is at the top of the social class and was sent by Spain to rule the Spainsh colonies a peninsulares.
How do historians know that race and social class in Spanish colonies were closely related?
There were specific terms used to divide people into different classes based on their parents' races.
What is the highest position can a Filipino get in the Spanish colonial government?
The highest position a Filipino could hold in the Spanish colonial government was as a member of the Principalía, which was the ruling class of indigenous people who were granted Spanish citizenship. This group had authority over local governance and could hold positions such as gobernadorcillo or cabeza de barangay.
People of the highest social class in society belong to the?
aristocracy
What was a difference between the middle colonies and the carolinas?
people were strictly separated by social class.
